SAIC

Senior Systems Engineer

SAIC • $100K — $130K *
Huntsville, AL 35810In-Person
Information Technology
15+ years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 18 years of experience; or 22 years of experience without a degree.
  • Active Interim Secret security clearance with the ability to maintain a Secret clearance; US Citizenship required.
  • Expert in long-term technical roadmaps and distributed systems design.
  • Proficiency in leading and mentoring engineering teams with a focus on technical excellence.
  • Strong foundation in IaC, CI/CD, incident response, and disaster recovery best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Define long-term technical roadmap for systems architecture.
  • Facilitate professional development and foster a culture of technical excellence within teams.
  • Interface with other departments to align technical projects with business goals.
  • Provide command and control during major technical issues or security breaches.
  • Manage systems engineering budget and optimize cloud expenditure.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work options (remote and onsite in Huntsville, AL).
  • Focus on professional development and continuous learning.
  • Opportunity to lead high-impact technical projects and initiatives.
  • Involvement in shaping the strategic technical vision of the organization.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Systems Engineer to lead our infrastructure and platform engineering teams through the next phase of our technical evolution in Huntsville, AL. This is a high-impact leadership position that combines strategic vision, technical depth, and people management to drive operational excellence across our systems landscape. This position has hybrid options (working both remotely and onsite)

The Senior Systems Engineer will be responsible for but not limited to the following duties:
  • Defining the long-term technical roadmap for systems architecture, ensuring infrastructure and platforms can scale with the company's growth.
  • Professional development of engineering leads and individual contributors, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
  • The primary interface between systems engineering and other departments like Product, Security, and Finance to ensure technical projects align with business goals.
  • Provide the command and control during major architectural failures or critical security incidents.
  • The daily and strategic duties of this role are typically divided into three main pillars: leadership, technical oversight, and operational excellence.
  • Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding high-performing systems engineering talent to build well-rounded teams.
  • Conducting regular performance reviews, setting measurable OKRs, and managing career pathing for direct reports.
  • Managing the systems engineering budget, including cloud spend optimization (FinOps) and vendor contract negotiations.
  • Advocating for the team's needs at the executive level while filtering and prioritizing top-down business requirements.
  • Reviewing and approving complex architectural designs for distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks.
  • Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of the systems environment by enforcing best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Identifying and retiring technical debt by championing modernization efforts like containerization or serverless transitions.
  • Establishing technical standards and documentation requirements to ensure consistency across various engineering squads.
  • Developing and maintaining robust Incident Response and Disaster Recovery (DR) protocols to meet strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
  • Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting strategies to proactively identify system bottlenecks before they impact customers.
  • Overseeing the project management lifecycle for large-scale migrations, data center exits, or global infrastructure expansions.
  • Promoting a "DevOps" or "SRE" culture that emphasizes automation over manual toil and values "blameless" post-mortems after system outages.


Qualifications

Required Education:
  • Bachelor's degree and eighteen (18) years' experience; additional four (4) years' experience can be considered in lieu of degree.


Required Clearance:
  • Must possess an active Interim Secret security clearance to start with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; US Citizenship required.


Required Skills:
  • Expertise in defining long-term technical roadmaps, distributed systems design, cloud infrastructure, and modernizing architecture (e.g., containerization, serverless).
  • Proven experience in leading and mentoring engineering teams, conducting performance reviews, managing career growth, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
  • Strong focus on reliability, scalability, security, and deploying best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and disaster recovery (DR).
  • Ability to interface with Product, Security, Finance, and executive leadership, aligning technical initiatives with business goals, and advocating engineering needs.
  • Experience with FinOps (cloud spend optimization), vendor contract negotiations, and managing systems engineering budgets.


About SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 26,000 employees and operates in more than 70 countries. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. SAIC provides services to the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and civilian agencies. The company also serves commercial customers in the healthcare, energy, and financial services sectors.
Learn more about SAIC
Size
26,000 employees
Market Cap
$6 billion
Industry
Information Technology
Net Income
$206 million
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+10.7%
Revenue
$6.8 billion
NASDAQ
SAIC
* Ladders Estimates

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